Nearly thirty years ago I was friends with a woman from Kenya (Lao tribe). She was a grad student and very bewildered by America and NYC. Once, driving up Amsterdam around 103St, we passed a group of ‘African Americans’ standing, beer-in-bag-in-hand outside a bodega. She shook her head and asked...”What did you do to these people?”
I hope your answer was, "The Great Society."
A better question would be:
What have these people done to themselves?